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What's Good About ADW’s Design Migration? 16.6 has many new enhancements!
Prior to the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.6 release, the migration process required multiple executables:– Netassembler – Archiver – Purge– PackagerIt was also less robust with...
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Customer Support Recommended - Instance and Occurrence Modes of Design...
Assigning reference designators for the schematic instances is a very vital part of the entire PCB flow. This can sometimes become very cumbersome, and in some cases users allocate a major portion of...
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What's Good About Capture’s Save Command? 16.6 Has a Few New Enhancements!
Just a quick blog this week to mention a couple productivity enahancements for Capture-CIS. The 16.6 Allegro Design Entry CIS (Capture) product has a few new enhancements for Saving designs.Read on for...
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What's Good About AMS Data Precision Options? They’re in the 16.6 Release!
Just a brief blog today to introduce that 16.6 Allegro AMS Simulator (PSpice) now provides 64-bit data precision by default. This ensures a higher precision compared to the 32-bit data. For example,...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Quickplace Overlap? Check Out 16.6!
Just a very "quick read" on a new option for Quickplace this week.The Allegro PCB Editor Quickplace is an application used to ‘quickly’ scatter components around the perimeter of the design or to a...
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What's Good About APD’s Wire Bond Application Mode? You’ll Need the 16.6...
In previous releases, the wire bonding toolset was primarily contained within the “Wire bond Select” command. This allows access to all of the common wire bonding functionality, based on what you’ve...
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What's Good About PCB SI AutoSolving Models in SigXplorer? You’ll Need the...
In previous releases, when you extract a net into SigXplorer, all the structures are automatically solved in Allegro PCB SI and then passed to SigXplorer. At times, the layerstack of the extracted...
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Customer Support Recommended - Flex PCB Design Features in Allegro PCB Editor
Flexible PCBs are used widely in everyday technology and electronics in addition to high-end, complex completed components. Two of the most prominent examples of flexible circuit usage are in hard disk...
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What's Good About RF PCB and Agilent ADS Via Exchange? 16.6 Has Many New...
The 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor and the Agilent Advanced Design System (ADS) interface have several new enhancements with respect to padstacks and vias.I will cover the Allegro generic via padstack that...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Net Groups? See for Yourself in 16.6!
Just a brief blog today about a new feature in Allegro PCB Editor.A new net grouping mechanism has been added in Allegro PCB Editor 16.6 called ‘NET_GROUPS’. Essentially, the Net Group replaces the bus...
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Simultaneous Switching Noise Analysis – The Earlier the Better
The evolution of signal integrity analysis is similar to many electronic design tasks. First, best practices were followed. Second, analysis tools were used to verify final designs. Then, to reduce...
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What's Good About DEHDL’s Hierarchical Split Symbols? The Secret's in the...
The complexity of the designs is constantly increasing and more and more logic is being placed inside hierarchical blocks. This leads to an increase in the number of interfaces that are exposed by the...
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What's Good About FSP’s Schematic Generation? 16.6 Has Many New Enhancements!
The 16.6 release of Allegro FPGA System Planner (FSP) has MANY new enhancements in the area of schematic generation.Some of the highlights:Rules file can be added via the Component Browser as Real...
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Customer Support Recommended - Working with NetGroups in Allegro Design Entry...
Allegro Design Entry CIS provides a new feature called NetGroup, which offers an easy-to-use and more flexible method of connecting schematic symbols in complex designs using the concept of bundling...
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Power Integrity Solution Spans Multiple PCBs and Packages
When designing next-generation products, the common theme is"faster, smaller, cheaper". When that is combined with longer battery life and lower power consumption requirements, the design challenges...
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What's Good About ADW’s Flow Manager? 16.6 Has Many New Enhancements!
The 16.6 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) Flow Manager has been enhanced to provide these new capabilities to improve your productivity in working through the design flow:CPM ExplorerViewing project .cpm...
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What's Good About Capture’s Find Command? 16.6 has a few new enhancements!
The 16.6 release of Alelgro Design Entry CIS (Capture) has added productivity enhancements to the Find command.You can now:Search for a property with a specific valueUse regular expressions for...
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What's Good About RF PCB Libraries? 16.6 Has a Few New Enhancements!
There have been a few new library level enhancements made to 16.6 Allegro RF PCB Editor—New librariesSetup enhancementsDRC removal for netlist re-importDiscrete library translator enhancementsRead on...
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What's Good About AMS Schematic Undo? It’s in the 16.6 Release!
Just a very brief post this week on a new AMS Simulator (PSpice) capability.The AMS Simulator 16.6 release allows you to undo schematic changes after you’ve done a netlist and simulation.Read on for...
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What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Parameterized Cornering? Check Out 16.6!
The Shape - Add Rectangle command has been enhanced in the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor release to support cornering options of ‘Chamfer’ and ‘Round’. Control the corner length/radius using either ‘Explicit...
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